Microsoft VARs Vexed by Office 365 Renege
Microsoft's partners are scratching their heads after plans to give them control over Office 365 billing have still not materialized.
View ArticleTech Sector May Have Gone Over Fiscal Cliff
Next week’s earnings reports for the fourth quarter may confirm what many suspect: The tech sector went over the fiscal cliff, as businesses across the board cut spending in the final months of 2012 in...
View ArticleSAP Still Optimistic Despite Q4 Profits Miss
SAP officials claimed that "continued investments in key innovations as well as the expansion of [its] global go-to-market activities" are to blame for the vendor's missed quarterly targets, but still...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Business Adoption of Office 365 Rising
In a blog post, Steve Ballmer claimed that since its business launch 18 months ago, one in five of its global enterprise customers uses the Office 365 service, up from one in seven this time last year.
View ArticleVMware: DRS Won’t Increase License Needs
VMware has silenced criticism of its Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS) solution after License Dashboard claimed it could increase user license requirements by up to six times.
View ArticleVARs Slam Microsoft Office License Lock-in
Small business partners are concerned that the vendor is forcing their customers toward Office 365 by making licenses for its fully packaged product suite non-transferable.
View ArticleBI Software Sales Continue Slow, Steady Growth
The market will reach $17.1 billion by 2016, as CIO appetite for BI is complemented by more tactical buying for departmental and workgroup analysis and demand for data-as-a-service continues to grow.
View ArticleGates Hits Microsoft Innovation, Mobile Strategy
Looking tanned and relaxed in a recent CBS interview, Gates, who still holds the role of chairman of Microsoft, said he and chief executive Steve Ballmer were "two of the most self-critical people you...
View ArticleHP Readies Formal Autonomy Partner Program
Conceding there may have been too many logistical and financial barriers preventing resellers getting involved with selling its wares, HP officials say the new Autonomy channel scheme is very similar...
View ArticleHP Calls Software $10B Channel Opportunity
George Kadifa, executive vice president of HP Software, told assembled hardware and services partners that "we would like to see HP software being the third arrow in your quiver".
View ArticleRoskill: Microsoft Not Forcing Office 365 on You
Microsoft's corporate vice president for the worldwide partner group insists the vendor is not forcing customers over to Office 365 by making on-premise Office 2013 licenses non-transferable between...
View ArticleStudy: Pirated Software Hiking Security Costs
Businesses across the world will have to spend some $114 billion this year dealing with security issues caused by piracy – more than $312 million every day – according to a new report.
View ArticleMicrosoft Reverses Office 2013 License Call
Microsoft bowed to pressure from small business resellers and consumers by reversing its decision to make Office 2013 licenses non-transferable.
View ArticleAVG Technologies Searches for New Chief
Security software vendor AVG Technologies is looking for a new chief executive officer after long-time leader J.R. Smith last week announced his resignation.
View ArticleU.K. Agency Probes Alleged Autonomy Fraud
Britain’s Serious Fraud Office has opened an investigation into the alleged accounting scandal at the former Autonomy Corp., now a unit within Hewlett-Packard.
View ArticleHP: Partners Don’t Know Everything We Do
Hewlett-Packard is pitting its future on innovations in security, Big Data and cloud computing, all while retaining its core businesses in personal computing, printing, networking, servers and storage....
View ArticleRed Hat Revenues Up but Short of Expectations
For the three months to Feb. 28, Red Hat's profits rose 19 percent to $43 million annually on sales which jumped 17 percent to $348 million over the same period – just shy of Wall Street expectations...
View ArticleDell Filings Reveal Pressure of Transformation
Dell’s regulatory filings reveal the company is forecasting a steady revenue decline in core PC business and that enterprise acquisitions haven’t yielded strong returns. Dell is fast becoming a case...
View ArticleIntronis Names Tech Vet Rick Faulk New CEO
Intronis named technology industry veteran Rick Faulk to lead the company as its new CEO, an important move toward executive stability at a cloud BCDR player that has crafted an aggressive channel...
View ArticleFirms Sticking with XP May Pay Hefty Price
One in five businesses plan to keep using Windows XP after Microsoft Corp. halts support for the OS next year, according to new research, which claims that the firms could end up paying an extra...
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